Founder's Internship

Ready to revolutionize the future of employee insurance? Join us on an exciting journey to build the world's first fully digital employee insurance Traditionally, the employee insurance industry and its processes have been cumbersome. Administrative headaches for HR managers, payroll managers, employees, doctors and claims managers, were the norm. Recognising the need for change, grape aims to revolutionise the traditional employee insurance model.

How do we set out to achieve that lofty goal? The grape platform integrates with the HR and payroll systems of our customers, allowing us to automate repetitive tasks, provide analytical insights, and suggest preventative measures. Due to our automations, we are able to provide a seamless absence management user experience for HR and payroll managers. Ultimately, this means that claims are paid out faster, creating financial security for all our insured employees.

**Requirements**:
**About you**
- Close to **Bachelor or Master graduation** or recently graduated.
- Good verbal and written communication skills in** German and English (C1).**:

- Having **practical experience** from internships in consulting, startups, scale-ups, tech companies, or from entrepreneur/startup associations is favorable.
- **Ambitious** and equipped with an **entrepreneurial mindset** to make things happen: given the scope, volume, and timeline of work, the ability to direct people - including oneself - towards a particular objective that may require active orchestration is key.
- Ability to **work with limited guidance** and proactively collaborate with multiple stakeholders across and outside the organization: given the scope of work, you should be able to jump from one topic to another with a similar impact.
- **‘Business’ sense and analytical skills**: often you will have to think at the company level, assessing what would be best for the business, and working on topics that have cross-cutting impacts. The ability to understand what can make a business great (product-wise, commercially, in terms of image, etc.), and usually making correct decisions, even in the presence of ambiguity, is paramount.

**Big plus**
- You speak French and/or Italian.
- Insurance knowledge/interest.

**What you will be working on**
- Working alongside the team and the founders on business priorities, such as unlocking new growth, product decisions, and onboarding partners.

**Benefits**

**Our Offer**
- Hybrid setup, we’re all setup remotely, however, we love spending time together in our beautiful office in Hardbrücke, Zürich.
- We believe in ownership from day one and empower each and everyone in our team to take on responsibility.
- You have the chance to play a decisive role in shaping our company in its rapid growth.
- You are joining a company that wants to change the way health (both physical and mental) is perceived and promoted within the workplace. Employees at grape can profit from various benefits that enhance your wellbeing.
- You will be part of a group of highly ambitious people. You may have heard the saying "you become the average of the five people you spend the most time around". Expect that average to be very high when it comes to ambition at grape.
- We are an inclusive team and value everyone's unique background. We expect different opinions and appreciate honest and frequent feedback. We thrive to create a safe work environment where nobody has to hide their real self.
- You will join us on our regular team events and retreats.
- 25 days of paid vacation per year.
- For this position, we can only admit Swiss or EU/EFTA applicants.

**Our Process**

Motivational Fit (phone screen) - Maximilian Thoelen, Founder's Associate | 30 min
- During this call we want to learn more about you and previous experiences, but also give you the opportunity to ask questions about grape.

Role Fit Interview - Fabian Mächler, Co-Founder & Co-CEO | 60 min
- During this call we will go more in depth in understanding your background and skills.

Skills Assessment
- You will get the chance to work on our skills assessment during a time slot of your choice, to showcase your technical competence.

Skills Assessment Presentation - Fabian Mächler, Co-Founder & Co-CEO | 60min
- You will be able to present your assessment and explain your methods & processes more in depth.
- Meet our founders and some of the other team members at our office in Zurich.

Reference calls
- By this point we will have gotten a very good idea of your background, skills and team fit. Now it’s on us to do the last check with the references you provided.

Offer
- We’ll write out and send you your offer, so that you can start getting excited about you joining our team

**We are looking forward to hearing from you